Republican Senator Rand Paul called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to calm the rhetoric on Cliven Bundy, arguing the Nevada senators domestic terrorist comment was liable to stir up the situation and lead to violence.

The Kentucky senator spoke Thursday night with Fox News Eric Bolling, who was filling in for Sean Hannity. Is there any need to call Americans domestic terrorists? Bolling asked.No, I think what we should all be calling for is for calmer heads to prevail, Paul said. I dont want to see violence on either side.

There is a legitimate constitutional question here about whether the state should be in charge of endangered species or whether the federal government should be, Paul admitted. But I dont think calling people names is going to calm this down.

I wouldn’t bet against Shumer and his cutthroats to start leaking dirt on Reid. If the conservatives could learn how to get on message Reid would become a liability, but conservatives love to go off topic and spew lengthy essays on details, and boring everyone to death except the converted. Reid is dirty and corrupt and he is breaking yet more laws by trying to have Fed agents initiate violence.

Reid is a master of scapegoating. He brands people who have better values than his. His values are cowardly name-calling, dirty political tactics, lack of charity toward others, lack of principles, self-centeredness, egotism, back-biting, and partisanship at all times. He does not believe in America; he believes only in a political party.

Paul gave a weak response. The endangered species in this situation is Cliven Bundy and the courageous men and women who came to stand with him against coercive bureaucrats. That is the disappearing species in America, and that threatens freedom for everyone.

Reid is a nasty little man who literally has The Devil in his eyes. His physical appearance, whiny voice, and corrupt business connections make him an easy target. (He presents like Howdy Doody’s villain Phineas T. Bluster).

If he were a Republican, he would have been forced to resign and would already be serving time in a Federal Prison.

Too many independent people know too much material on Reid not to have it eventually take it down. Daxton states in one of his blogs-book that Reid has been indirectly involved in at least 11 bribery cases. (Ala the one mentioned in Salt Lake tribune that has recently disappeared)

Also deeper inquires into the Reid history of real estate dealing (possibly tying it to the bribes or other money laundering )might be in order Something suspicious is going on:

“Harry Reid is only concerned with his family and himself. The citizens of Arizona provide him the opportunity to grift on a large scale. “

Well, he also has concern for the Las Vegas/Reno entertainment unions, to the extent they continue to fund his reelection campaigns and continue to vote him in office. Speaking of family; where did he find his son, Rory, under a rock out in the desert? That’s one weird dude....

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posted on 04/19/2014 5:06:03 AM PDT
by snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)

In the world of politics the criminal includes friend and foe into his criminal operation knowingly or unknowingly so as to eliminate his or her guilt when the light is turned on in the tenament and the roaches scatter for cover. It’s a collective, if Im guilty so are you therefore speak softly be nice and things will eventually dissapear

“How can we logically expect the GOP to turn around our headlong dive into tyranny if they cannot confront open corruption?”

No truer words, Jacquerie. No truer and no more disturbing. You are 100% right. The lack of the GOP confronting the situation can only mean a few things.. they are cowards, they tow the GOP line or they are defending Reid’s position.

Republican Senator Rand Paul called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to calm the rhetoric on Cliven Bundy, arguing the Nevada senators domestic terrorist comment was liable to stir up the situation and lead to violence.

That's what Reid is hoping to achieve.

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posted on 04/19/2014 5:11:49 AM PDT
by b4its2late
(A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)

Not sure it is working out that way, many people have told me they think he is involved because he is talking like he has an interest in the outcome. If he wanted to take attention away from himself I would think he would keep quiet. Reid is so arrogant and I think he is having a temper tantrum for not getting his own way.

> The endangered species in this situation is Cliven Bundy and the courageous men and women who came to stand with him against coercive bureaucrats. That is the disappearing species in America, and that threatens freedom for everyone

I’m not so sure about that. There has been a HUGE awakening of patriots in the U.S. like never before. When Dems, liberals, lefties, etc. start calling Tea Party Patriots names like domestic terrorists its only because they are scared of them and the power they wield and want to shut them down (while ignoring their own Alinsky tactics and activism saying it is “different”; yeah we’ve heard that one before). The Tea Party stands in the way of their political agendas (raping of the system) and societal re-engineering and they don’t like it one bit. The people have have heard them cry wolf over and over again and their cries are starting to fall on deaf ears as people on both sides of the equation are starting to figure things out for themselves.

Reid’s talking points are the exact same talking points which came from the dems before the OKC bombing and the attempted car bombing in NYC in 2010 which they tried to blame on the TEA Party.

Not only do I believe there is another terrorist attack coming but there is going to be another version of the “spontaneous” lie they tried to concoct with Benghazi.

I think they are going to try and make people believe the terrorist are planning their attacks in 1 of 2 ways.

1, planning an attack in advance and then waiting for just the right time/news story to carry out the attack or 2, picking up on a news story and in a short period of time planning and carrying out the attack as if it’s almost “spontaneous”.

I think what Reid is doing is trying to make people believe 2, the terrorist are simply picking up on what’s in the news and planning and carrying out a terrorist attack around what is in the news as if it’s “spontaneous”.

If the dems can make people believe the terrorist are simply picking up on what is in the news and planning their attacks around what is in the news, instead of the news being orchestrated for the attacks, they will have a nice cover story of what happened in Benghazi and a cover story as to why dems always seem to have their talking points in place before terrorist attacks.

The cover story for Benghazi will be the terrorist simply picked up from the news the dems praising Carter at their convention then the terrorist “spontaneously” planned a repeat of the attack on our embassy just like what happened with Carter.

At least George Washington appeared in person to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791. I think the pugnacious Weed, er Reid, should do the same since he views this as an insurrection. FWIW that incident was over basically the same issue: the usurping of power by the central government (here becoming something akin to the central committee of the Communist party) from the states.

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posted on 04/19/2014 5:41:38 AM PDT
by Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)

I'll go further than that. Paul gave a deceptive response. One of those DC handlers must've told him his potential supporters side with Bundy, and humor us with some weak statement.

It isn't about an endangered species. Is Rand Paul so uninformed he doesn't know that, or is he deflecting? I don't know which is worse. It's about US citizens being assaulted by federal agents and their property being destroyed, illegally, using court rulings the feds control as an excuse. What happened to the Bundy's is an assault on all of us.

Rand Paul should go on a solitary retreat and figure out just who he is and what he believes in. He is not the same man anymore as the one who eloquently spoke against drones spying on us. He is not the same man who stood by Ted Cruz even when not in 100% agreement with him because it's going to take serious action to turn the US around. Does anyone know who Rand Paul is anymore? Does Rand Paul?

The only land the federal government should ‘own’ and control are, at most, a national park in each state, military bases and the turf federal building sit on. States and American citizens should own the rest. Selling federal lands to American citizens would certainly go a long way to satisfying Obama’s debt problem.

————The lack of the GOP confronting the situation can only mean a few things.. they are cowards, they tow the GOP line or they are defending Reids position.————

Do we get to pick? My answer. By towing the GOP line they are cowards and appear to be defending the POS Reid’s position.

Paul and others in the Give Over Party should be standing in the well of both houses at the Feral level and State level screaming the abuses. They should be on every network and writing editorials condeming Reid and his words.

BUT mostly crickets and silence so We the Citizen must spread the word

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posted on 04/19/2014 5:52:24 AM PDT
by eartick
(Been to the line in the sand and liked it)

I really wish people would take notice of the spectacle of one of the most powerful men in the federal government spending much of his time (paid for by us) going after private citizens. First it was the Koch Brothers, now its Cliven Bundy. As far as I know, neither the Koch Brothers nor Cliven Bundy hold any elective office, they hold no appointed office, they are not employees of the federal government, they have no formal political power beyond that of any other citizen. Yet Reid seems driven to destroy them. Very Alinsky-esque tactics, if you ask me. I would think with all the other more important issues facing the country, Reid would have bigger fish to fry. Evidently not.

That one tweet was only one part of a long in his face narrative of Cruz versus Obama Care. And it was timed to reply to the President immediately after the debate is over comment. And for you to assume that’s his only attack on Obama is just absurd.

And it doesnt change the fact, Pauls comments were weak, tepid, whitewashed, and sounded like Obama begging Putin to “calm” etc. Paul also was telling the Bundy side to calm down too, which is pathetic. Get over your man crush, this was a disappinting response, but of course, on the way to meet with Mitt fund raisers .what should we expect????

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posted on 04/19/2014 5:58:06 AM PDT
by C. Edmund Wright
(Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)

Well you are right that Cruz needs to get on this ASAP because it will become one of the defining issues of the coming election WHEN it blows up.

On the other hand you are also championing an idiot whose Cheshire conservatism only seems to pop into existence when it suits him. His less than stellar handling of the entire Amnesty issue and open support for the man who hates, threatens and works against conservatives more than any other, should clue pretty much everyone who understands the word ‘integrity’ in to where his actual loyalty lies. And it ain’t with us.

Dang Norm .I agree with all of that. I agree with you that Cruz needs to join the Bundy issue and quick ..and I agree that Rand is an intellectual mess, or just a totally cynical opportunist .or both.

I would say to our friend Barnacle that if Cruz ever makes such a girlish pathetic statement on national TV, I will be the first to criticize it. But as a Paul bot, self critique is just not in the cult playbook.

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posted on 04/19/2014 6:14:09 AM PDT
by C. Edmund Wright
(Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)

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